They say, “Love the way you dealt with that uppity teenager!”
You know: I am to intone that these pundits think of Obama as an “uppity Negro.”
MSNBC host Chris Matthews felt at ease, on national television, referring to a woman as “ she devil,” “ witchy,” and “ uppity.”
Conservatives really seem to hate it when uppity women—damn that pesky economic empowerment!
He thought I was uppity and mixing with highbrows or something.
She was making her do that because she thought she was uppity and she wanted to punish her.
But one night a bunch o' uppity Niggers went to a 'tainment in Memorial Hall.
You was 'fested with letheh straps an' uppity talk when I knowed you fust.
We ought to beat hershell get too uppity to live with, declared Bobby, discussing these games.
Den, how come you talk so uppity, like a man wid de law on he side and ain't a-scared o' nobody?
adjective phrase
(also upper-drawer): His manners were silkily upper-crust/ the upper-drawer voters
noun phrase
The social aristocracy; the elite (1835+)
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